This sustainable and circular styling session will give you simple tips and hacks to curate a stylish wardrobe that's tailored to your individual lifestyle and personality, no matter what age or size you are!

First, we'll have a quick run through of what's needed for a holistic circular fashion economy and sustainable fashion future. Then you'll get ideas for what you or your community can do for a healthier planet. We'll finish the session with an exciting live re-styling demo with a model showing how to re-style one garment in at least 6 different ways, for 6 very different types of occasions. Why? So you can reduce fashion waste and be your most stylish self at the same time!

Join the fabulous Nina Gbor, sustainable fashion educator, eco stylist, international speaker and clothes swap expert of over 13 years. Nina works with media, councils, schools and community groups across Australia to create a more holistic sustainable fashion future. She was a featured guest on season 3 of ABC TV's War On Waste. She is the Director of Circular Economy & Waste Program at The Australia Institute.

This session is part of our monthly swaps- clothing so come along to that between 10am - 2pm. Book here .

Did you know that you can restyle the same basics for multiple occasions? Nina Gbor joins Wingecaribee City Council in the city’s atrium at the Civic Centre for an exciting fashion restyle session. Nina will show you easy, quick and stylish hacks to transform one garment into 5 to 10 very different looks for very different occasions. You'll be able to reduce fashion waste, reduce your shopping budget and live your most stylish life by making the most of your current wardrobe.

Following the restyle session Nina will open the clothes swap for everyone to find a new item to love, the link below will take you to the closing of the event which is also the clothes swap. Please make sure you also sign up to drop off your clothes through this link.

With one in 5five Australians celebrating Halloween this year, Halloween spending is expected to reach $450 million in Australia in 2024!.

A big part of this spending is on the holiday staple of COSTUMES! And with these costumes often designed for single use, much of it ends up in landfills. We want to break this waste cycle with our Costume & Clothes Swap. We've partnered with Randwick City Council and Plastic Free Coogee in this exciting costume and clothes swap.

RSVP here.

Elements is the Blue Mountains’ first sustainable fashion show. It will feature curated collections from five local women-led businesses that focus upon pre-owned, vintage, sustainable and upcycled fashion.

Featuring Nina Gbor

Boomerang Labs is hosting a docufilm screening and panel discussion. Hear from Celeste Tesoriero, the Creative Sustainability Director at Sonzai Studios, and Nina Gbor, founder of Eco Styles and the Director of the Circular Economy & Waste Program at The Australia Institute at the Fashion ReImagined Film Screening at Palace Cinemas Central Park on Tuesday, September 24th at 6:00 PM.

This event is presented in collaboration with FanForce Films.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with fashion experts.

RSVP here.

Textiles and fashion waste have reached unprecedented levels around the world.

But Australia takes the prize as the biggest consumer of fashion in the world per capita, with over 300,000 tonnes of textiles discarded each year.

With processes such as resource extraction, manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal happening with multiple players and often across multiple continents, finding solutions is not easy. But it’s also not impossible.

A holistic, sustainable, ethical and sufficient fashion future is a North Star that we may or may not reach. However, we need to know when we’re heading in the right direction – and when we’re not.

Join our expert panellists – Dr Lisa Lake, Professor Ken Pucker, and Adrian Jones – who’ll discuss textiles and the circular economy, moderated by Nina Gbor, Director of Australia Institute’s Circular Economy & Waste Program. The panel will explore the legitimacy of proposed and existing textile solutions and seek to decipher the most holistic and legitimate pathways to a sustainable future.

Free but registration is essential. RSVP here.

This exciting presentation will have simple tips and hacks to curate a more stylish or customised sustainable wardrobe at any size or age.

We'll have a quick run through of what's needed for a holistic circular clothing economy and sustainable fashion future. You'll also get ideas for what you or your community can do for a healthier planet. This session will also feature a live re-styling demo showing how to re-style one garment in multiple ways for multiple types of occasions so you can reduce fashion waste and be stylish at the same time.

RSVP here.

Are you passionate about creating a sustainable and resilient community? Don’t miss this enlightening panel discussion featuring three inspiring voices who will explore how energy, first nations perspectives and the circular economy are key to fostering sustainability and environmental stewardship.

Panel talks with special guests including:

• Costa Georgiadis

• Nina Gbor

• Tim Forcey

• Shannon Foster

If you love great company, great clothes and hate fashion waste, join us in boosting the circular fashion economy with this exciting NO FAST FASHION CLOTHES SWAP! Clothes Swap & Style and City of Sydney Council are teaming up again to bring you this social event where clothes are swapped in the spirit of generosity and community to make a positive environmental impact.

RSVP here.

How do we Fix Fashion?

Each year in Australia we throw out more than 300,000 tonnes of clothing, some goes to Opp Shops but most of it ends up in landfill or is shipped offshore for processing or recycling.

After watching seriously tongue-in-cheek Patagonia doco 'The Shitthropocene', 
Craig Reucassel, ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast presenter and host of The War on Waste will try to find the answers in discussion with panellists:

• Patagonia spokesperson

• Councillor Adam Worling, former director of Thread Together clothing re-use social enterprise

• Australian Fashion Council CEO - Jaana Quaintance-James, former Sustainability Manager, The Iconic

• Nina Gbor, Australia Institute Director of Circular Economy, founder of @Eco.Styles

• Reverse Garbage CEO Kirsten Junor, former Dress for Success Operations Manager

• Rachel Power, The Bower Head of Textiles

RSVP here.

A discussion forum as part of The Bower's Festival of Repair - for small businesses engaged in the circular economy.

Together we will explore the topic: How small circular economy businesses committed to re-use, recycling and waste minimisation can overcome the challenges they face and maintain financial viability.  

Moderated by the Australia Institute’s Director of Circular Economy and Waste, Nina G’Bor, founder of EcoStyles, with  

• Boomerang Labs CEO Caitlyn Touzell

• MRA Consulting, Environmental Consultant, Circular Economy team, Karen Davids

• Superyard founder Ritchie Djamhur – on setting up an online marketplace for unused building materials

• Circle Paints founder Jocelyn Bell – on running Australia’s only paint re-use outlet

Followed by networking drinks

RSVP here.

Register to bring along your good quality clothing and accessories to trade with like-minded fashion enthusiasts. Guilt-free shopping that keeps clothes in the circular economy and out of landfill. A collaboration between Randwick City Council, Clothes Swap & Style founder Nina Gbor (War on Waste ABC) and Plastic Free Coogee.

Are you ready to revamp your wardrobe the eco-friendly way?  

RSVP here.

The Thrivability Matters Webinar is a monthly online gathering, whereby invited experts expose science-based sustainability learnings, through sharing their experience and knowledge. This month, we will discuss SDG 9, on industry, innovation & infrastructure, and how they can create sustainable outcomes while reducing their impacts.

1 MILLION WOMEN IS TURNING 15 AND WE ARE CELEBRATING. 

Come party at our FESTIVAL OF SOLUTIONS - Be inspired by slow fashion icons, women from the front line of climate change, world leaders, zero wasters, climate scientists, performances from SUPERSTAR MUSICIANS who have spent their careers fighting for our precious earth and DIY demos from the experts on how to live lightly on our planet. 

Then after the Main Event, browse our Solutions Marketplace with over 40 stalls bursting full of climate solutions and all the ways that enable us to live a life that’s lighter on the planet. 

Our festival is for everyone. BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS and let's fill our hearts with optimism and joy and climate action!  

Tickets here.

Ready to update your winter wardrobe? Before you buy new, join us for an exciting night of sustainable fashion by swapping, dropping and restyling your wardrobe!

In the spirit of World Environment Day on 5th June, we're extending our celebration to host a panel discussion with amazing guests who will show us the Power of Reuse and how each of us can participate with a small gesture.

Panelists:

• Yiana Roumeliotis, Community and Social Impact Manager at Addi Road, a charity with a huge impact. They rescue food and fight hunger, among many other great initiatives they offer.

• Nina Gbor, founder of Eco Styles. Nina is an educator in circular economy and sustainable fashion, international speaker, sustainability consultant, clothes swap maven, and eco stylist. She recently showcased her work on the ABC's War on Waste.

RSVP here.

Register to bring along your good quality clothing and accessories to trade with like-minded fashion enthusiasts. Guilt-free shopping that keeps clothes in the circular economy and out of landfill. A collaboration between Randwick City Council, Clothes Swap & Style founder Nina Gbor (War on Waste ABC) and Plastic Free Coogee.

RSVP here.

Clothes Swap & Style and City of Sydney Council are teaming up to bring you this exciting swap social. If you love great company, great clothes and hate fashion waste, join us in boosting the circular fashion economy through swapping. In addition to diverting clothes from landfill, the goal is to foster a spirit of generosity within the community and make a positive impact.  

Book your spot here.

Join us on Friday 22 March for a fascinating conversation on fashion, entrepreneurship and circularity with founder, speaker and fashion educator Nina Gbor and iAccelerate Expert in Residence Kylie Flament.

Join us for the finale event of ‘Live More with Less’ celebrating medium green climate action; aka an unapologetic approach to living more with less. That’s more fun, freedom and connection and less obligation, waste and eco-guilt. 

In this vibrant panel discussion, you’ll learn from sustainable living trailblazers about why they are hopeful for our future and how keep their climate distress at bay.

If you’re concerned yet confused about what climate action to take, you’ll find solace and solutions in this dynamic event.  

Register here.

Join Jo Taranto from Good For The Hood in a chat with The Australia Institute’s Circular Economy & Waste Program Director, Nina Gbor in a webinar where Jo Taranto will share her expertise on what a circular economy looks like and the opportunities for transitioning to circular systems. She’ll explore how a circular economy, cannot only reshape our supply chains and manufacturing but also how it can fundamentally reshape community life and participation as well.

Free online events but booking is essential. Register here.

Bring along your good quality clothing and accessories to trade with like-minded fashion enthusiasts. Guilt-free shopping that keeps clothes in the circular economy and out of landfill. A collaboration between Randwick City Council, Clothes Swap & Style founder Nina Gbor (War on Waste ABC) and Plastic Free Coogee.

Are you ready to revamp your wardrobe the eco-friendly way?  

Book your spot here.

Is recycling actually just a form of greenwashing? Globally, plastics generate around 1.8 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year. In Australia, only 18% of plastics are recycled and the nation’s recycling targets are far from being reached.

It’s been reported that each person ingests about a credit card size in plastics each week. That’s roughly 5 g a week or an average of 100,000 g of microplastics every year. The implications of all this plastic on our health is a critical issue.

These are some of the topics that will be discussed in our plastics webinar.. We’ll share ideas for reducing plastic use in your life. And also increase momentum towards phasing out plastics or potentially shifting the country towards recycling targets and a circular economy that would minimise plastic waste and lead to materials being recovered, reused, recycled and reprocessed.

Join:

• Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Executive Director and Founder of the Plastic Free Foundation

• Dr Deborah Lau, CSIRO’s Ending Plastic Waste Mission Lead

• Associate Professor Thava Palanisami, Environmental Plastics Innovation Cluster(EPIC), The University of Newcastle

• Nina Gbor, Director of the Waste & Circular Economy Program at the Australia Institute

for an interactive discussion on plastic waste in Australia.

Register to get the zoom link here.

Calling all Local Young People (ages 12-25) to join our sustainable restyling workshop with Nina Gbor from War on Waste!

Sometimes we get new stuff when we’re bored of our clothes or when we have an event to go. This leads to more stuff we don’t need and therefore more fashion waste that pollutes the environment. Enter the art of sustainable restyling. What if you could create fresh ‘new’ outfits from your existing wardrobe that also work for your events without spending anything? Come to this workshop where Eco Stylist, Nina Gbor will show live, practical restyling demos with models where you’ll get easy and simple ways on how to use 1 garment in at least 5 different ways for different types of occasions.

Book your spot here.

TANWEEN

Tanween, Ithra’s Season of Creativity is the largest creativity platform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is designed to celebrate, explore and inspire the creative process. Since its inception, Tanween has connected change-making creatives and innovators with global subject matter in an inspiration-fueled environment to nurture creative potential, share ideas and redefine what creativity means in a changing world.  

A PIECE FOR LIFE

Sustainability in fashion design has increasingly caught the attention of brands and designers. In this session, we will invite you to question the conventional ideals of consumerism while encouraging a thoughtful reassessment of our clothing choices. We will also showcase awe-inspiring examples of unconventional creations.

Panel moderated by Waleed Shaalan, cofounder and Design Director of Sifr Studio.

Speakers:

• Batoul Al-Rashdan

• Nina Gbor, Founder, Eco Styles

• Ryan Mario Yasin, Founder and CEO, Petit Pli

Find Tanween details here.

A Piece For Life

Calling all Local Young People (ages 12-25) to join our sustainable restyling demo workshop with Nina Gbor from War on Waste!

Australia is the second most wasteful country in the world per capita when it comes to fashion waste! Why is there so much fashion going to landfill? What can we do to create a sustainable wardrobe for ourselves that’s also stylish? And how can we help curate a more sustainable fashion and circular economy future? Come to this talk with Eco Stylist, Nina Gbor that will also feature live, practical restyling demos with models where Nina will show easy tips and tricks on how to use 1 garment in at least 5 different ways for different types of occasions.

Register here now if you are interested in attending this workshop, spots are limited! If we have spots available we will also accept sign-ups on the day.

In 2018 – 2019, 7.6 million tonnes of food were wasted in Australia or an average of 312 kg per person was wasted that year.

In terms of economic loss, this equates to $19.3 billion and an average of $2000 – $2500 per household being lost every year. The irony of Australia’s food waste problem is that half a million households experience food scarcity every day due rising costs of living. And 8-10% of greenhouse gas emissions are from food waste. This makes it a significant contributor to the climate crisis.

Join us in a conversation with Oz Harvest’s founder & CEO, Ronni Khan; Paul West, Cofounder of Grow It Local, TV Host, Author, Chef;  and Nina Gbor, Australia Institute’s Director of Circular Economy & Waste as they delve into the core of the issue. The webinar will also explore ways households can reduce waste while saving costs, alternative systems, and how we can collectively change the food system to reach the government’s target of halving Australia’s food waste by 2030.

Register here.

Calling all Local Young People (ages 12-25) to join us for an introduction to sustainable fashion & clothes swap event with Eco Styles!

Raid your wardrobe for 5 / 10 quality items in great condition that you no longer use and exchange them for some super stylish pieces to glow up your summer wardrobe. Why? Because reducing fashion waste to landfill is trending! You’ll here more about this in the sustainable fashion chat by Eco Stylist, Nina Gbor.

Book your spot here.

7 years ago, The ABC’s groundbreaking environmental series War On Waste firmly placed the nation’s attention on Australia’s waste issues and solutions.

It sparked local and national systems change in the country. This year the award-winning series returned with a new season highlighting how far Australia has come in the war on plastic, food and fashion waste.

The new season investigated recycling in Australia, brought to light new waste topics, challenged the lack of corporate accountability towards their own waste and explored what government can do to curb the waste tide. And most importantly the season provides straightforward solutions to help us all shift the status quo with Australia’s waste crisis.

Join Craig Reucassel, host and producer of ABC TV’s War On Waste and Nina Gbor, Director Circular Economy & Waste Program at the Australia Institute, for a discussion on how we can all turn the tide to resolve Australia’s waste crisis as individuals, within communities and with our local and national government.

Book your spot here.

Update: Watch the recorded webinar here.

This event is part of Randwick City Council’s Eco Living Festival.

Ideas for individuals, communities and society to initiate a more holistic circular clothing economy for a healthier planet. This session will also feature a live restyling demo showing how to restyle one garment in multiple ways for multiple types of occasions and look stylish while reducing fashion waste.

Presenter 
Nina Gbor is a sustainable fashion educator, eco stylist, speaker and clothes swap host of over 12 years. 
Nina works with councils, schools and community groups across Australia to create a more holistic sustainable fashion future. She’s a guest contributor on War On Waste season 3 and the Director of Circular Economy & Waste Program at The Australia Institute.

Book your spot here.